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OpenSolaris Community: Databases

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Welcome to the Databases community of OpenSolaris!
This community is about all things databases on Solaris. It is for both users of databases as well as those of us involved in creating and delivering database technology.

Topics will range from:

• How to make your database run best on Solaris
• Ideas for improving Solaris to better enable database technology
• Comparison and contrast of various database technologies
• Pointers to open source database add-ons, tools, and other code
• Other topics related to databases on Solaris

Please feel free to join in and participate!

Announcements

16 Jan 2008	Sun Microsystems Inc. to Acquire MySQL AB
07 Nov 2006	JDBC 4 API Final Draft Approved

Events

20 Jul 2008

OSCON PostgreSQL Day

News

MySQL is Officially a Part of Sun | Jonathan Schwartz' Blog | 02/26/2008

Sun and MySQL have closed the acquisition deal. Jonathan Schwartz describes the deal's significance.

PG Community Releases PostgreSQL 8.3 | PostgreSQL Community | 02/04/2008

Today the PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases the long-awaited version 8.3. The Solaris release of 8.3 will come in 32 bit and 64 bit versions. See Bjorn Munch's note: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=51000&tstart=0

A New Way to Buy PostgreSQL Support from Sun | Sun Global Specials Store | 01/22/2008

We have just added a new, easier way for customers to buy PostgreSQL support from Sun!

In a Vortex | Jonathan Schwartz' Blog | 01/19/2008

Jonathan Schwartz Discusses MySQL Acquisition and Sun's DB Strategy.

Sun Microsystems Inc. to Acquire MySQL AB | Jonathan Schwartz' Blog | 01/16/2008

Sun has announced it will acquire MySQL AB.

Blogs

jkshah - wal_buffers in postgresql 8.3.3

Jul 2, 1:37 PM

Recently Felix Malinkevich joined the ISV-E Open Source Team as an Intern working on PostgreSQL along with us. On his first project he takes on pgbench with PostgerSQL 8.3.3 on a drive on OpenSolaris ...

paulvandenbogaard - Running PostgreSQL on ZFS file system. Some considerations

Jun 19, 8:11 AM

Up till now I compared ZFS to UFS when deploying the PostgreSQL database files. Only these database processes were running on the system, and only all the PostgreSQL related files were on the ...

paulvandenbogaard - UFS versus ZFS with PostgreSQL, the saga continues

Jun 18, 1:57 AM

The previous posts described some tests I did using a setup that was "tuned" to focus on CPU consumption. The idea was to minimize IO as much as possibly by caching all data needed as much as ...

MortazaviBlog - PostgreSQL Surveys

Jun 18, 12:22 AM

PostgreSQL.org community pages contain some interesting surveys .

Jan Berg - Delivering The Goods

Jun 16, 6:25 AM

Mysql Connector/J (5.1.5, JDBC Driver) is delivered to the OpenSolaris source as part of the Webstack project , and should show up in build 92. The JDBC driver will be located at ...